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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Bjoern Franke <bjo@schafweide.org>,
	Tobias Predel <tobias.predel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtw88] Linux 5.6-rc1 / RTL8822BE WiFi adapter
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:39:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <028ea5d3-1459-b37e-f996-72958be0ff4c@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c76d37cc-2cab-a8f2-e570-a444c06ad020@schafweide.org>

On 2/15/20 5:12 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Is the provided firmware file in the linux-firmware tree still
>> compatible with the driver code?
>>
>> I would be very glad if someone could look into this.
> 
> I'm just wondering why these issues do not appear with lwfinger's rtw88 
> branch[1]. lwfinger mentioned several times that his module is mostly the same 
> as the kernel one.
> 
> But with the "official" one I often got connection losses or bad throughput.
> 
> Kind Regards
> Bjoern
> 
> 
> [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtlwifi_new-rtw88-dkms/

I deliberately stay behind the official kernel repo so as to avoid implementing 
any regressions. As you are the one with the problem, you need to perform a 
bisection to discover which change to rtw88 introduces your difficulty!!

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-15 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-14 21:41 [rtw88] Linux 5.6-rc1 / RTL8822BE WiFi adapter Tobias Predel
2020-02-15 11:12 ` Bjoern Franke
2020-02-15 17:39   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2020-02-16 13:40     ` Bjoern Franke
2020-02-16 20:42       ` Tobias Predel
2020-02-18  9:45       ` Tobias Predel
2020-03-08 12:44         ` Tobias Predel
2020-03-08 14:29         ` Tobias Predel

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